ahrc - Context is the Key

Context is the Key: The Use of Strategically Created Storybooks to Improve Language
Friday, October 19, 2007 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Are your students communicating with their AAC devices to indicate their wants and basic information, yet, when they are asked to write sentences, their productions are not syntactically correct? The methods highlighted will help students who use AAC devices to better meet the curricular demands of writing. This presentation will demonstrate the use of a framework that includes the strategic placement of missing language structures in the context of storybooks to expand the spontaneous sentence formulation skills of students who use AAC devices. Case studies and examples of strategically created storybooks will be shown to demonstrate how to close the gap between their expressive and written communication.
Jacquelyn R. Moore, Speech Language Pathologist/AT Consultant, Montgomery County Public Schools, Bethesda, MD .